NUFORC Sighting 47646

Occurred: 2005-11-11 18:40 Local
Reported: 2005-11-11 16:13 Pacific
Duration: 12 minutes

Location: East Patchogue, NY, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

Starlike objects hourglass like shape moving sporadically

Saw faint light by moon. looked like a star at first. But it started moving sporadically around the rounder half of the moon.

I was in front of my house looking south over my neighbors' houses searching the sky and admiring the moon as I always do.

I've never seen anything like this before.

I watched it move around the round part of the moon for abou 5 minutes, then it started moving over the moon and eastward still very sporadic. Then as it moved out of the glare from the moonlight I saw about five or six other star-like lights around it still very faint.

It looked almost like an hourglass shape.

There were airplanes in the sky near it and it would zig zag from them. The movement continued to be sporadic and would go back west then turn back sharply east.

I watched it do this for about 6 more minutes and each time it turned back sharply east the other starlike lights I saw around it would fade and disappear.

The last minute I watched it continued rapidly east and completely disappeared.

I felt almost paralyzed watching this phenomenon and I'm still shaking. I wanted to get my mother to come out and see it too but I didn't want to lose sight of what I saw.

Posted 2005-12-16